They are young and flirt with danger. They stream through digital dating channels or search for prey in the Buenos Aires night. The mentions of “Black Widows” They appear weekly in the crime chronicles, in a form of crime that has shown steady growth over the last three years, according to the succession of similar episodes. But soon their luck runs out.
This is what happened to the 20-year-old thief who, after putting her victim to sleep in the Caballito district of Buenos Aires, decided to give herself an extra reward in the middle of the robbery: she used the cell phone and the Mercado Pago account of the man passed out next to her to buy a chocolate. I waited for the delivery to arrive at the building at 900 Pujol and went down to receive the candy. Only later did he leave the apartment of the person he had rendered unconscious with a mixture of psychoactive drugs and alcohol. However, it left behind digital crumbs that researchers followed up on.
The young “black widow” didn’t just take a piece of chocolate with her from this house. The robbery was detailed by Justice: “As the man went to take a shower, he fainted and the woman stole $4,000, two cell phones, a notebook, an electric guitar with a case, a pair of gold earrings, a watch, several items of clothing and a perfume.”
Information about the case provided on the prosecutor’s news website added: “While the man was unconscious, the woman also unlocked one of the phones, logged into the victim’s Mercado Pago account, made several transfers until she reached the amount of $5,538,721, and purchased a chocolate, which, before leaving the scene, was delivered to the victim’s house. After midnight, the victim woke up, realized what had happened and made a refund Report to the police.”
The downfall of this young woman, who tried to disappear from the radar of justice by moving with relatives to Choele Choel, in Río Negro, contributes to the arrest of several girls who, without being older than 25 years, had chosen to commit this type of crime. The extent of criminal activity can be measured by arresting suspects and reporting thefts. A few days earlier, it became known that a “colleague” from the world of criminal seduction had been caught by another detail hidden by the feeling of impunity that young “black widows” feel: the 19-year-old girl named Cande left her fingerprints on the glass of the prey she found on Tinder for the dream toast.
Nai, on the other hand, took the drinks after drugging the man he met that evening at a bowling alley in Palermo in Almagro. She left no physical footprints, but left digital footprints that investigators tracked until the 24-year-old girl was captured. In recent weeks, other pseudonyms have gained public prominence due to the arrest of “black widows” such as Sofi, responsible for at least seven ambushes in a year, and the most dangerous, Cachorra, wanted for two murders.
The data on robberies in this modality suggest that the risk of encountering a “black widow” may be greater than the economic damage: this year at least six men died while intoxicated by drinks laced with psychotropic drugs, including a 19-year-old boy – Williams Quispe Quenta – who did not wake up after being the victim of one of these robberies along with two friends in his home in the Liniers district.
In the reported case of the 20-year-old girl who had a chocolate delivered to the victim’s house, the suspect denied the alleged facts when he testified this week before Judge Ángeles Mariana Gómez Maiorano, in charge of the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 49. But prosecutors claim he was responsible for at least two Black Widow robberies.
“According to the investigations intervened by the District Attorney’s Office of the Districts of Saavedra and Núñez, led by Prosecutor José María Campagnoli, the young woman arranged meetings with her victims through social networks, drugged them and robbed them in their homes,” says the State Department’s news site.
“The arrest of the accused – it was stated in the official information – took place within the framework of the request for cooperation that the judge sent last September to the Secretariat for the Arrest of Refugees, headed by Juan Pablo Bello, and which operates within the framework of the Special Unit of the Prosecutor for Complex Criminal Investigations – also headed by Campagnoli – under the general direction of Romina Del Buono.”
In addition to the above-mentioned episode in the Caballito neighborhood, this young woman is accused of a similar robbery on April 5 in Núñez. In this raid in Amenábar around 3800, he showed his cold-bloodedness, as he did when he bought chocolate in the other robbery.
“On the afternoon of April 5, when they were drinking Fernet with Coca-Cola, the defendant put some narcotic in his drink, which caused the man to lose consciousness. The woman took advantage of the situation to seize $150,000, a cell phone and wireless headphones, kitchen appliances, two suitcases, a CPU, two handhelds and a video camera, after which she fled,” he said. stated on the prosecutor’s news website.
“In addition,” it was recorded, “the next day, the woman tampered with the victim’s cell phone and used her Mercado Libre and Mercado Pago accounts to purchase a pair of sneakers and a shiny protective case for her cell phone camera.”
Using the stolen phone, investigators were able to find the first clue to the arrest of the “Black Widow”. And it was discovered that the suspect had registered her own cell phone “to an address in the middle valley of the Río Negro where she had relatives.” Then suspicions grew that the young woman wanted to cool off her criminal activities in the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires by traveling to the south of the country.
Federal police investigators requested the cooperation of security forces in this province to locate the young woman, who was eventually arrested.
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